NGC 1449

NGC 1449

NGC 1449 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 190 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 50,000 ly, about 50% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,111 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
4,111 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1449 as it looked roughly 190 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 1441Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1417Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1451Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1453Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1418Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1376Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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